Graduate School of Engineering

Associate Professor Masakazu Morimoto

近年、AIによる画像認識技術は飛躍的に進歩しており、これを社会の様々な場面で活用する取り組みを進めています。工場における外観検査支援システムを構築して、検査員の負担を軽減したり、再生綿からの異物除去システムを構築して、綿のリサイクル率の向上を目指したりしています。

Graduate School of Engineering

Associate Professor Eri Miura

チタンやマグネシウムなどの生体との相性のよい金属をベースに、金属とセラミックス、樹脂のそれぞれの優れた性質を組み合わせた生体材料の開発や、生体中での腐食摩耗に関する研究を行っています。結晶構造や性質の異なる素材同士を一体化させるには材料の界面の性質が重要になってきます。生体や海中など特殊な環境におかれた材料の界面や表面の性質を詳しく知るため、電子顕微鏡による組織観察や様々な分析機器による表面分析、機械試験等を行っています。

Graduate School of Science

Professor Hisao Kobayashi

We are improving tools and methods to study special materials, which have unique properties due to quantum physics. Our goal is to discover new ways these materials can be used especially for energy related technologies. This could lead to breakthroughs that support a sustainable society by finding innovative uses for these materials and understanding how they work.

Graduate School of Science

Professor Yoshihito Tanaka

The interaction of X-rays with materials has led to a variety of measurement methods. If X-rays can be transmitted through fiber optics, we will be able to use X-rays much more easily than now, just like fiber-optic cable communication networks. We are developing a method to introduce synchrotron radiation X-rays into a hollow glass fiber to control the irradiation position, and to transmit visible light lasers at the same time to efficiently measure optical properties.

Research Institute of Nursing Care for People and Community

Professor Chisato Hayashi / Institute Director

The study will examine changes in social frailty*2 by dividing people into two groups: those who use health apps as a family and those who use them alone. We will examine whether using health apps together with family members as a health support bubble will have the effect of promoting information sharing and maintaining motivation for health promotion. Based on the research results, we are looking forward to building measures to prevent social frailty through the use of ICT.
*1 Family use of health applications
*2 Decline in physical and mental functions due to a decrease in social connections

Graduate School of Engineering

Professor Yusuke Kikuchi

In Japan, about 50% of electricity is consumed by electric motors. Reducing motor power consumption by inverters using next-generation power semiconductor devices such as SiC will contribute to energy conservation, prevention of global warming, and development of electric vehicles and electric aircraft. This research aims to develop advanced electrical insulation technology for SiC inverters under reduced pressure at aircraft flight altitudes to support higher voltages and frequencies.

Graduate School of Engineering

Associate Professor Kodai Machida

By refining the individual biomolecules that make up human cells and combining only the necessary ones, we have successfully reproduced part of the functions of human cells in test tubes. This simple system will be useful for explaining the mechanisms that cause viruses to proliferate and explain the causes of illnesses caused by protein abnormalities. In this manner, we are advancing research that contributes to healthy living of humans, through the development of technological foundations for preventing various diseases and discovering treatment methods.

Graduate School of Science

Professor Koichi Kusabe

Currently, it is possible for computers to reproduce physical phenomena at a atomic scale and at an accuracy that yields data extremely close to experimental results.

I am conducting research on this computational materials science, from its fundamental principles to its application.

I believe that these results can be used for designing and proposing new materials and electronic devices that can create technological innovations and contribute to the formation of industrial infrastructure.

There are multiple undertakings of co-development with experimental sciences that aim for countermeasures against warming, such as research into the design of reaction conditions of hydrogen-related materials in particular.

Graduate School of Engineering

Professor Syogo Ito

For such a goal, a highly durable perovskites solar cell was completed. (That is what I am holding in my hands in the picture.)

I am also doing research and development into hydrogen fuel cells with ultra-durable catalyzers and platinum-free catalyzers, in order to use that energy. (A hydrogen cabinet is pictured on the right side of the picture. Pictured on the left side is an air tank.) We will keep on creating amazing developments.

Graduate School of Engineering

Associate Professor Naohisa Takagaki

The violent winds, high tides, and heavy rainfall from typhoons cause major damage to society. In that regard, my graduate school is developing a highly accurate forecasting model of typhoons using an ultra-large mock ocean experimental tank called a “typhoon simulation tank”, the only one of its kind in Japan.

Moreover, being able to modify typhoons, much like suppressing global warming, will create a society with fewer disasters, so we are also investigating that potential.

We are also utilizing engineering to develop ocean energy technologies.